Legends of Zork has just launched!

April 1, 2009

"Legends
of Zork has just launched"

You are standing
in an open field west of a white house. Or maybe you're not? Maybe you're
sitting inside a blue house? Or a greenhouse? You could be in an internet
café, or maybe you're just checking your email during the commercial break of
your favourite show? Wherever you are, as long as you have an Internet
connection, you could be playing Legends of Zork(tm).

With the fall of
the Great Underground Empire chaos seems to be gaining the upper hand. Kobolds,
trolls, and every dangerous creature imaginable (and occasionally an
unimaginable one) have been growing bolder and creeping further from their
lairs. Conflict is spreading through the land, mayhem abounds, and the dreaded
words on everyones lips are "Recession" and "Redundancy". Yep, the economy's
gone down the tubes, and you've been sacked from FrobozzCo International. But
don't feel bad, everyone else has too. So why sit around moping about your
pension when you could be out adventuring? With so much money to be made from
cutting your way through hordes of monsters, you'll never need to worry about
your finances again! And if you're not a very good adventurer, or you run into
a grue... well, at least your pension won't be an issue anymore.

That's right, 30
years after its first conception, Zork(tm) is back! After much hype, confusion
and then hype again, Legends of Zork(tm) has finished its testing period,
and has now been released to run wild and free on the internet at
www.legendsofzork.com

"We've designed
LoZ to be as accessible as possible, hoping to appeal to both original Zork fans
(and there's enough of them working on this that we should know what we're
talking about), while also trying to bring in a whole new generation of
players", said Dylan Collins, CEO of Jolt Online Gaming, "We appreciate that
Zork(tm) is a hallowed franchise, and we have tried our very best to keep within
the spirit of the game and pay it the reverence it deserves, while also making
some obvious changes to open it up to a wider audience". He continued, "We don't
know if this approach will make us the most celebrated company in the world, or
if we've just earned ourselves a whole lot of hate mail, but whatever the
result, that's the balance we've tried to strike. We've also made it as
accessible as possible in a very literal sense, in that we've designed it to be
played in your Internet browser, at home, in school, in the office. Personally I
can't imagine a better use of a smartphone than to thrash a giant Kobold while
on my exercise bike at the gym".

For more information, game
announcements, and of course to try the game yourself, please go to www.legendsofzork.com.

Jolt Online
Gaming is one of the leading browser games publishers in the world with millions
of players across its titles.